Results of a new outline-based method for the differentiation of conodont taxa

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 245, 2003, Pages 389-405

  Sloan, Terrence Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conodont; Morphometrics; Shape analysis; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CONODONT; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; TAXONOMY;

CONODONTA;

EID: 1842579487     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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